Clarity AI, a sustainability technology platform that uses machine learning and big data, has performed an analysis to uncover whether organisations with greater female board representation also have a greater number of women employees and a smaller pay gap.

The study looked at board gender diversity and employer diversity of 7,401 companies.

Of those, 6,332 organisations had less than 40 percent women on the board and 1,069 organisations had more than 40 percent women on ...